Author: Albert Silver
Date: 12:18:05 04/27/01
Go up one level in this thread
On April 27, 2001 at 12:38:41, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>Hi:
>MCP 8 and his predecesors has fallen in the deepest oblivion. Rarely somebody
>talks something about them. Although a great program, the problem is that it
>never offered the friendly features that are today the standard. To launch MCP8
>-or previous versions- with acceptable hash tables compels to boot with special
>disk loaded with hymem and other obsolete DOS devices, but even if you accept to
>play it with no more than 46 Kb for Hash tables, even so you are left outside
>the windows environment, an untolerable thing for everybody that multitask or
>want to return fast to windows for anything, from checking the email to use a
>word procesor. Rebel shares the same problem, but compensates a lot with some
>tricks to get decent Ram for the engine without so much hassle.
>
>All said, it is still and enjoyable program I would like to play from time to
>time. So my question: which, according to knowleadgeable people here, is the
>strongest version?
I think MChess Pro 7.1 was the best, and truest to the spirit of the program.
Great programs, great fun.
Albert
>It is really the last one, CMP8? I have this one and besides
>a lot more, beginning with MCP 3,5. I would be moved and grateful if someone
>here can tell me which of them deserves he first price in strenght in order to
>load it in my PC for good. I almost cry when I see all those disk getting dusted
>and forgotten.
>Fernando
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.